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Mesoscale Discussion 689

May 23, 20204 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2020, 2:57 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2020, 2:57 PM MDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2020, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning
Severe thunderstorm watch 208
All 38 counties

Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Crook County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2020-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2020-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -114 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 1:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick7 hr
May 23, 2:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCYuma117 min
May 23, 4:40 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma3 hr
May 23, 5:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick93 min
May 23, 12:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 2 more117 min
May 23, 4:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock and 1 more55 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2020Every mesoscale discussion in 2020

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.